Category Archives: PIC32

Graphics, Touch, Sound and USB

Posted on 12. March 2014 by Lucio Di Jasio

Graphics, Touch, Sound and USB – User Interface Design for Embedded Applications Since the very first  “Programming 16-bit micro controllers in C” (aka the Flying PIC24) book started shipping in the US, I began receiving from my readers requests for a follow … Continue reading →

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M-Stack – An open source USB stack for PIC16, PIC18, PIC24 and PIC32

Posted on 5. February 2014 by Lucio Di Jasio

M-Stack (link) is a new, well-documented, free and open source implementation of a USB stack for Microchip PIC platforms developed by Signal 11. That is Alan Ott’s creation, a name that many of you will immediately associate to the excellent … Continue reading →

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An Open Source Toolchain How-To Guide for the PIC32

Posted on 19. January 2014 by Lucio Di Jasio

I have always known that the MPLAB C32 compiler first and MPLAB  XC32 compiler later were both projects based on the GCC platform and therefore shared a common Open Source DNA. What I could not imagine was how easy it … Continue reading →

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Eclipse for the PIC32

Posted on 6. January 2014 by Lucio Di Jasio

Another couple of interesting links for the PIC32: Using Eclipse for PIC32: http://blog.hjf.com.ar/2013/01/developing-for-pic32mx-using-eclipse/ GDB Proxy for Pickit2 and PIC32: https://code.google.com/p/ejtagproxy/wiki/About   Enjoy

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Unix for PIC32

Posted on 22. December 2013 by Lucio Di Jasio

Here is a link (http://retrobsd.org/wiki/doku.php) to a true port of the Unix (BSD) OS to the PIC32 (MIPS)! This code will work on a humble MIPS M4K core that you can find inside the PIC32MX series devices. It will work … Continue reading →

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New Mikromedia, new (better) Audio Player (VS1053)

Posted on 30. July 2013 by Lucio Di Jasio

A short while ago I wrote about a small module that I wrote to support the Audio Codec chip present on the Mikromedia (PIC24) boards (link).  What I had not noticed though was that I had been playing at home … Continue reading →

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Unexpected (Positive) Side Effects of using Python: Cross Platform Simulation

Posted on 28. July 2013 by Lucio Di Jasio

When talking of side effects, more often than not, we are referring to the bad ones. This is especially true when they are involuntary and unexpected. But here is the story of a good one, a side effect of using … Continue reading →

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Python Expressiveness

Posted on 26. July 2013 by Lucio Di Jasio

While learning a new language you will notice how the often enthusiastic literature available dispenses adjectives with quite some generosity. Apparently every new language out there claims to be more “expressive” than the previous. This is an easy claim when … Continue reading →

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Python on the MX7MMB

Posted on 13. July 2013 by Lucio Di Jasio

I have just added to the repository (link) support for the PIC32MX7 on the Mikroe MX7 Multimedia board. This is obviously the richest board available and it allows Python to use 120KBytes + of RAM. Makes me wonder what kind … Continue reading →

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Python for the Mikromedia and Mini-32 boards

Posted on 9. July 2013 by Lucio Di Jasio

I have finally gotten my hands back on the Pymite project and I have updated the v10 branch to include three PIC32 platform. Both the Mini-32 and the PIC32 Mikromedia are now supporting a USB (CDC) serial interface to the … Continue reading →

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